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(Preston News Servee.)
(By John T. Chirk, Pli. 13. )
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\ ALU 10 OF NEGRO PRESS
RECOGNIZED.
That Negro newspapers are increas
ing their ititlucnce over tlie way the
Negro spends lrs money, is being re cop,
n'.zed by big liusiness. This chanty
lias been noticed by scanning the kind
ot advertisements occurring in the No
gro newspapers especially during tp.n
last six months. Advertisements from
big commercial houses, banks manu
freturers, etc. were notice*! in last
week’s issue of each of 22 Ni gro news
papers published in all sections of the
country. The following Is one nota.ue
instance:
A corporation having branches
throughout the world in a campaign
of publicity undt rtook to advertise 1 h-*
orportunit ies it offers to Negro work
men in 6 of our prominent Negro news
papers. Th|s company spent a consider
able sum of mom y in putting over tab
campaign. Officials report that sin
this campaign started six months ag
thu number of Negroes applying fi—
work at their main plant in-r.’C.tsed
-* * >0 per cent.
show* piof-Tes.H. Tie* re creased
cremation of every Negro paper at
tracts the k'j»d of advertisements
_ which give profitable information to
our renders and better financial sup
port to the paper. God speed the pass
ing of “Lucky Charm” “Fortune Tell
ers” and other advertisements whlich
exploit the weaknesses of our race
gioup.
GEORGIA DETERMINES TO
CHECK MIGRATION
A haw Iras been introduced into the
state legislature in Georgia to make it
a statutory offense to solicit labor in
the state o fGeorgiu for any point ouL
s.de of the state. No license can be ob
tained at any price, and one found
guilty will serve a term in prison from
three to seven years. The following in
stance makes it appear that the legis
hiture in Georgia has enlisted the as
sistance of the Western Union Tele
graph Company and the Federal Post.
C.'Uce in keeping Georgia Negroes
from leaving thie state:
A colored man from a small town
net fat from Savannah came to Pitts
burgh three months ago. I-Ie obtained
work and found a place with a friend
for his wife and child. He obtained
a post office money order for $50 and
sent it to his wife in Georgia to come
to Pittsburgh. The Georgia post office
clerk refused to pay over the money.
She returned the order to her husband
it. Pittsburgh whb collected the money
and then sent it by telegraph. The
Georgia representative of the Western
Union would not give her the money.
The man then came to the Urban Leag
no office more determined than ever to
move every member of his family out
o* Georgia.
Another evidence of truth of the
s*aiement that ‘Prohibition does not
always prohibit.”
KEEPING AMERICA WHITE.
Pittsburgh papers in one day carry
tl o following significant news items.
One reports that Dr. Harry C. Paul.
Chicago Optometrist, declares that the
blonde with the baby blue eyes is doom
ed fo extinction. "It is caused by the
intense light in this latitude. The pig
ment protects the retina by screening
out destructive light rays and the
bloudp having not enough pigment it.
her eyes suffers accordingly."
Frederick J. Haskin on a study made
by I)r. Alex Hyrlickn of the Smitlrson
ien Institute, who spent 12 years coi
leeting data on coloring of the skin,
eyes* hair of the older generations of
Americans. He states that two-thirds
o? the men*. and three-fourths of the
women, stripped of rouge, whflte-wash
and other disguises are found to have
sk'n of intermediate coloring. Brown
ish but not dptrk enough to be termed
dusky.
In Ihe same paper, stfll the follow
ing:
in ijKianoniii, a monin ago a
Oi-pck war flogged for marrying nn
American white girl, nnd told to leave
the clly. Without either showing any
aigns of fl'gli'. yesterday hie American
wife was kidnapped, had hier hair cut.
am! was tortured hy hhvlng carboli?
add poured over her body.
With much more of the above public
Ity the kii klux klan and other fannt
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BAPTIST MINISTERS CONFERENCE
TAKES UNANIMOUS ACTION.
Rev. Dr. T. J. J. Mosby Leads the Movement—Committee Makes
r-j'■ Report—To Vacate Receivership—Endorses Petition for
Depositors-The Only Way to Save Vital Assets.
Bank Can Function Again. Will End Costly Litigation.
I lie Baptist Ministers Conterence ol
Richmond Va., Rev. Evans Payne, IV
1 pastor of the Fourth Bapt!si ;
church, at its special meeting Monday .
morning July 23rd at the Ebenezer!
Baptist Church unanimously adopted!
a resolution endorsing and recomond
i;.g that the depositors ol' the Med.tin
i< • Savings Bank oign the petition foi
11;.- ending of the receivership at the
Mechanics Savings Bank and the re
opening of that institution. This was
the rest! 1 • a o determined effort of!
Rev. T. J. J. Mosby pastor of the New i
Baptist Church1, who had given much!
time to the study of conditions and
the. working out of some plan to bene
fit the depositors.
NOT UNDERSTOOD.
Although TVev. Dr. Mosby’s sight has
been impaired for some time and It s
body has not been in the best of condi
tion, his bearing has been improved to
o remarkal le extent. Meetings have
been held regularly at the Hood
Temple A. M. E. Zion Church. Adams
and Clay street. Upon one of these
occasions, Thursday n’lghtj. July 12 he
v.as present while Editor John Mitch
ell Jr., was explaining conditions. He
stated that ho did not believe that the
situation was thoroughly understood
by the Baptist ministers and he
requested Editor Mitchell to ap
pear before a special meeting of the
Baptist Ministers’ Conference. Mondav
Ju'y 16th at the Ebenezer Baptist
Church.
PRESIDENT PAYNE’S POSITION.
Editor Mitchell consulted with Rev
| Dr. Evans Payne at his res'dence and
he being favorable to the suggestion,
be appeared there and explained the
s (nation. Editor Mitchell retire.!
af'er speaking and later, a committee
was appointed to report on the matter.
Th:s committee, consisting of Rev. Dr.
T J. J. Mosby chairman; Rev. Dr
Evans Pavno. Rev. Dr. W. T. Johnson,
pastor of the First Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. \V. H. Stokes, pastor of the
Ebenezer Baptist church. Rev. J. S.
Johnson. Rev. D. J. Bradford. Secre
tary investigated conditions and made
a favorable report Mondpv morning
July 23rd. As a result the resolution
wan passed.
DEPOSITORS SIGNING.
In the meantime, the depositor':
have been signing the petition which
will decrease the liabilities of the insfD
tntion over n quarter of a million dol
lars-. and when completed will cause
tee removal of the receivers and the
payment, shortly afterwards of cash on
all deposits. Arrangements have been
made for the financing of the project
and under now management there is
every probability tNnt the Mechanics
Savings Bank v/ill reoppn for business
un^er the direction of <*ompetent white
financiers for a time, but with colored
oHcinls and employees. This will en
able the institution to get rid of the
heavy expense to which it is being sub
Jtcted.
ONLY ONE MAIN CREDITOR.
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The only creditor of (ho institution
is the American Nntionai Rank and
the original indebtedness of $12B.000
.00 has been reduced' to about $20 000.
The depositors are the only othrr cred
Hors. If conditions continue to im
prove, the depositors will get dollar
for dollar. Under a receivership, the
loss of the depositors will he stagger
i; it. The first movemont then is to va
e-'te the receivership. Receivers are
not hankers or financiers. They follow
a rigid rule, in which losses entail.
do not figure. The c'ty has been djvid
ed up into districts and a corp of ladles
The following report was unanimously adopted
by the Baptist Ministers* Conference of Richmond
and Vicinity, Ur. Evans Payne, President:
July 23, 1023
We your committee submit the following report
In keeping with your appointment lastMondaay we have made a careful nvestiga
gation of the matter brought to us by the Hon John Mitchell, Jr. with reference to the
fifty per cent waiver so as to make the Mechanics Savings Bank solvent. We there
fore report to you that we deem it advisable to encourage the members of this Confer
ence to advise the depositors, as far as practical and possible, to comply with the
requirements of the plan, to the end that the Receivers be removed from the Mechan
ics Savings Bank.
Respectfully submitted,
E. Payne
D. J. Bradford
T. J. J, Mosby
J. S. Johnson
W. H. Stokes
S. P. Robinson
W. T. Johnson
Committee.
'•re now canvassing Ihe municipality
r(v a signatures of depositors.
FINANCIERS TO TAKE CHARGE
As soon as enough has l>een secur
ed to wipe out tire alleged shortage of
approximately two hundred thousand
dollars, application will he made for
the dismissal of the receivers and then
financiers of the most improved type
from Main Street financial district
wi.l ‘ako charge and work out the fin
ancial problems. The depositors will
then receive twenty per cent in cash
of (he money they have on deposit and
certificates of deposit, running through
a period of one, two and tlrree years,
drawing 4 per cent interest. The certi
f’cates are negotiable and money can
bo borrowed on them. With a strong
shady pull, a pull altogether, this em
barrassing situation on the north-west
corner of Third And Clay Streets will
end. Let everybody help.
STRAIN FROM HIS CUSTOMERS;
FINED AND SENT TO JAIL.
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(Preston News Service.)
Atlantic City, N. J., July 27.—Con
vt.-ted of sfenling the purse of Mr«
Mary Doyle, of Oswego N. Y.. contain
'r.g $1 800 In jewels and $.r>00 in cash
while she was rifling in a rolling chair
on the Boardwalk. Charles Turner,
chair pushjer. waa sentenced to serve
from two to three years In the state
penitentiary and fined $1,000.
Turner was wheeling Mrs. Doyle
and her husband when Mr. Doyle enter
ed a Board walk shop Turner is nllcg
ed to he^’e seized the purse from the
woman md holted. He was captur’d
by pursuers.
I ID W. IMPROVES
ACCOMMODATIONS
FOR PASSENGERS
July 11. 192:5.
Mr. John Mitchell. Jr.,
Richmond, Va.
My Dear Sir:—I am enclosing a copy
of a letter which explains itself.
I)r. Blackwell, Chairman of tho
State Committee, informs me his at
tention had been colled to the matter
by a few leading Negroes of Richmond
who are members of the State Inter
Racial Committee. Dr. Blackwell took
it up at once with the Norfolk and
Western Railway Company. The result
is shown in the letter of Mr. Needles.
Ttys Is a sample of what intelligent
fiiendly cooperation enn do In promo:
l-'g inter racial good will. THe moth
oc of approach used In this case by
the StPJte Committee reresents the
major contribution of the Inter-Rada I
C ommtssion to the solution of the gen
e. ,il question of race relations.
The Commission does not say to
any individual or community: "This
Must you do with relation to the Ne
gro.” It asks but one thing only: That
in any community where race rela
tions arc an issue, or any injustice ap
parently prevails, the best people take
the thing seriously In hand and seek a
Christian solution of every problem
as It arises.
vniinnjr t/vni|faiijr wifi UCl
ate it if
N grces
trains.
It v/M:T.
its action is made known to
who purpose using these
Sincerely yours
K. W. MILES.
N. AND W. RAILWAY
Roanoke. Va.
June 27. 1923.
Or. U. E. Blackwell. Chairman.
Va. Inter-Racial Commission
Ashland. Virginia.
Dear Sir:—Referring to previous
correspondence between our President
Mr N. D. Maher, on above subject.
The Railway Company will proceed
witli the installation of separate toilet
facilities in our coaches on Cannon
Ball trains between Richmond and
Norfolk for the accommodation of col
ored travel which requires ar. expend'
ture of approximately $3,000.00 to take
care of this request. ,
I am informing you of our purpose
ir the matter and your interest In
properly acquainting those concerned
w,ll be much appreciated.
Yours truly.
(Signed:) A. C. NEEDIJ5S.
Vice President Operating Traffic.
JAH. WELDON JOHNSON SEVERS
CONNECTION WITH N. V. AGE
James Weldon Johnson. Seeretary
of the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People. f>9 Fifth
Avenue, New York City, today an
nounced that he had severed his con
nection with the New York Age.
For the last nine years. Mr. Johnson
has tieen contributing editor to the
Age. His last editorials to appear in
that journal, were published in the
i*sue of Saturday July 14.
FERSONAIaS AVI) BRIEFS.
—Mrs. M. J. Phillips, of Detroit
Mu-hlgan is in (lie city visiting hei
hi other, the Rev. R. II. Johnson paster
of Sharon Baptist Church.
—Mrs. Anna Goolsby of lf»17 Decs
fur street, who has been sick for tin
past week is convalescing.
^—Mr. and Mrs. Richard Webb of
1700 Maury street, left tire city last
Saturday, for Cleveland Ohio theit
future home.
—Mr. E. D. Nelson of 128’ E. 18th
street. Southslde who has been slek
for some time, visited Roanoke. Va.
last week and called upon Dr. Pinkard
fo- an examination. He is greatly im
proved and speaks in high terms ol
the Dr. and h:s great remedies. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Nannie
Smithea and her daughter. Miss Vlo1*
S'evall.
-Misses Lillian M. Lewis and Flo
r:r.e Cogbill spent the week-end in
Washington and Maryland last week
They were accompanied bv Mr. Wm.
Fo;s „
—Mrs. E. D Tun stall, of Peakes. Va.
r- turn'd from Brooklyn, N. Y.. on the
lOtjf where she visited relatives and
friends. She was asked to remain
there to speak in the Defense of John
Mitch'oll Jr. They also pledged sup
port .
—Mr. John Cunningham. who was
very painfully hurt two weeks ago
whllo at work at the Southern Rail
way Shops. ,is out again. Mr. Cun
ningham resides on Petersburg Pike
FIFTEENTH ANNUAL
SESSION IMPERIAL
ORDER KINO DAVID
The Imperial Order of Kin? David
hoi.I its fifteenth annual session at
Hood Temple July 17th. and 18th. Mr*
A G. Thompson, G. W. R. presiding.
I was (<ne of tlie most su lessful and
iiiitmoni'ous sessions in tire history of
the organization. The order has made
a wonderful growth. bdth numerically
at d financially.
Nine hundred and, twenty-six mem
bers were added dur ng Uie past tea
n r uths. All death claims are paid ami
the order still has several thousand do’
If' - in hank to its credit.
Thirty two subordinate lodges were
giv. n Bibles as prizes for sending n
r p >rts promptly and having members
t paid up at tlie end of the year. Grid
p in. were given to fourteen members
, a tokens of appreciation for the work
dfj e by tiiem during the past jear.
I t ublic exercises were lifeld Tuesday
' hud Wednesday rights at which tin. ?
I an address was delivered by Ur. W. H.
■ Stokes and some very encouraging rt
, ri'i.i ks were made by Mrs. Maggie L
Walker. Mrs. Ora B. Stokes and Mr.
John Mitchell. Jr. An outline of the
i work done by the organization during
I tr.e past fifteen years was given by the
Gtand Worthy Scribe. Music by Union
Ai ’ Chorus.
T!.e following officers were cdecte I
fo. the ensuing year: Mrs. A. G.
Thompson, G. W. R.; Rev. W. H. Ford.
G. .V. 1st V. R.; Mrs. Clara S. Ellis.
G V. 2nd V. R.; Miss M. M. Scott, G
W". S.: Mrs. M. C. Brown. G. W. A. S.;
Mr. E. J. Taliaferro. G. W. Troas.;
Kcv. M. L. Johnson. G. W. 1’.; Rev. F.
I*. Wilson. G. W. Capt.; Mrs. E. Pear
« ill. G- w. R. G ; Mr. Jas. H. Ellis. G.
l'r L. G.; Mrs. Harriet. Blunt. G. W. 1.
;«•; Mr. H. W. Davis. G. W. O. G.; Mrs.
|M C. Johnson,. G. W. W.; Mrs. Hattie
I Gray. G. W. R. Mrs. Mrs. M. Peters. G.
'• M.; Mr. Tliios. Jefferson. G. W. L
Board of Regents:—Mr. E. J. Talia
fcm o. Rev. W. T. Henry. Mr R H
Green. Mr. J. R,. Beverley. Mr. W. R
Twtgg. Mrs. Eva Lena Davis Mr. W. P
Epps, Mrs. C. S. Ellis. Mrs. M. C.
Brown. Adjourned to meet the first
Tuesday in September at Chilesburg
\a.
The Grand Worthy Ruler wishes to
thank the following persons for the
beautiful bouquet of flowers and hand
some silver trays which were oresent
cd to her: Mrs. Hester Friend. Mr*
An hie Pollard. Mrs. Mary .Tone*. Mrs
Loufse Kersey Mrs. Angelina Watson.
Mrs. Mary Patterson. Mr. Adolphus
Pollard, nnd Mr. James Epps.
A beautiful thermos bottle was also
given by Mrs. Elizabeth Pearsall for
which she wishes to thank her
KING DAVID’S BIBLE CIRCLE
Tho Imperial Order of King David
has connected with It a Bible Circle.
»b U pays sick and death benefits. Chi!
dren from two to fifteen years are ad
ir.ltt« d.
Trinity Bil»Ie Circle rendered a
splendid program Wednesday nighf
splendid program Wednesday night
during tire grand sitting. Joining fee
tepn cents ($15;) Sick benefits on»
dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per week
D'-atb benefits foitv dei|nr« t*4000)
A fi. THOMPSON. W M • bcnr Man
fo-d, W. S.